After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended.

Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.

Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.

President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.

I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

Just as words in their proper places form sentences, each individual strike must be done in the proper order to get the desired result: a flat stone blade.

When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

I think a lot of people are afraid of being happy because of what others might think of it.